Migratory Boxes of Electronics Junk

The ucHobby blog has a great
write up on the latest meatspace meme for electronic hobbyists. It's
called The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk (TGIMBOEJ)
and it may be headed your way next. The idea originated with those evil
geniuses, Windell and Lenore, at Evil Mad
Scientist Laboratories. So what is a TGIMBOEJ? It's a progressive
lending library of electronic parts. It works like this: the TGIMBOEJ
arrives via UPS. You take out of it some parts you like and then put in
some interesting parts from your own junk box. Then you ship the
TGIMBOEJ off to someone else on the request list. But part of
the deal is that you have to document the event online to
show what you got and what you added, for example like Katie Bechtold
did when she receive the TGIMBOEJ box. And, of course, you have to ship
the box off a new recipient. There are a few other details to the
process such as suggesting other future recipients. You can read about
the whole process at the TGIMBOEJ Wiki. This sounds like
enough fun that I think we'll start a robots.net TGIMBOEJ aimed
at robot
builders. Stay tuned for more. If you'd like to be considered as the
first recipient of the box, add yourself to the box request list and post a
reply here. (photo by John Edgar Park)